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Misereatur:
A.
--- Quote from: jeph ---I like most Opeth (I thought Damnation and Deliverance both sucked, Ghost Reveries is pretty good but not as good as Blackwater Park or My Arms Your Hearse)
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Damnation and Deliverance were recorded both at the same time with prodoction from Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree fame. Opeth and Steven felt that the quiter songs will not fit in Deliverance, and decided to split the recorded songs into two albums: Deliverance, which is a totall death metal album, and Damnation, a prog' rock album.
Personally, I love them both, but that's just my opinion.
Ghost Reveries just dissapointed me. I have a copy of it because I'm a very big fan and I have all of their albums (and I'm going to see them live in 5 days!!). But I listened to it only twice.
B.
--- Quote from: jeph also --- if we're going to segue into doom/stoner rock that new Earth record HEX is amazing (but not really metal, imagine if Godspeed You! Black Emperor did the soundtrack for a western movie).
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Definitelly, the new Earth album is amazing.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Kai ---Everyone in this thread should definitely go buy a copy of Bathory's Blood on Ice. Because that right there is a heaping dose of FUCK YEAH
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Please pay attention during the opening of 'The Sword' in case you accidentally headbang through a wall.
For anyone wanting awesome prog metal, I hope everyone has totally checked out Ayreon - The Human Equation and Star One - Space Metal, both brainchildren of the masterful Arjen Lucassen. The Human Equation is like decent Genesis meets Dream Theater with a ton of great guest vocalists (including Akerfeldt and Devin Townsend). Just download the track 'Day Sixteen: Loser'. Rock and fucking roll. Space Metal, on the other hand, is like if Lemmy had never left Hawkwind and had just kept taking more and more speed. This impression is helped by one of the tracks on the bonus disc, which is a Hawkwind Medley with Dave Brock himself on vocals, which is so much fun it's probably banned in Utah.
As for anyone wanting to get into doom/stoner, there is only one word I need to utter:
DOPETHRONE
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Jedit ---While I'm 100% certain that prog-metal means something entirely different, I'm now left with the image of death metal bands covering early Genesis and ELO [1]. I don't know whether to kiss you or kill you for that. I suspect I shall take the middle ground, and rip your face off with my teeth.
[1] Though anyone who remembers The Return of Giant Hogweed might not think it's so big a leap.
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Actually, that's not too far off. Imagine all the elements that differentiate prog rock from "normal" rock. Now apply all those elements to metal.
Borondir:
Sadly you're right when you say there's not much good bass material in metal. Steve Harris of the almighty Maiden has some pretty sweet lines though, and of course the person you could always throw out for this, Cliff Burton (RIP). But even they often ended up just following the guitars.
I also don't rate Deliverance and Damnation as my favorite Opeth albums, I think recording the two different albums might have been a mistake. Deliverance is anything but pure death metal.
Bringing the progressive and doom threads together, what about Cult of Luna? I've only heard two songs, but I've been very impressed. Any thoughts?
Misereatur:
Cult Of luna are absolutly brilliant. A kind of sludge/doom metal in the vein of Isis, Pelican and Jesu. Their first two albums are great, though their second album is more of a quiter sludge/stoner rock then metal.
Plus, they're fucking Sweedish.
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